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Pitchfork Music Festival 2018 – Culture and Curation
Coop covers Pitchfork Music Festival 2018 and discusses how it manages to celebrate community, culture, and curation while still managing to be fun.
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Deafheaven: Ordinary Corrupt Human Love | What Is Love Without Corruption?
I don't think Ordinary Corrupt Human Love is the beginning of the end for Deafheaven, but it might end up being the beginning of a change.
Take My Word For It | Cheval Sombre – Had Enough Blues/Hitch A Ride 7″
Despite being only a 7" with two songs, Cheval Sombre has dropped one of the best releases of the year and you're gonna have to take my word for it.
The Jesus Lizard: Goat | The All-Time Noise-Rock Classic
There are no bands anywhere in this world that could ever hope to come close to the unhinged chaotic genius that is the Jesus Lizard.
Okie from Muskogee: Recorded “Live” in Muskogee, OK by Merle Haggard | A Critique of Willful Misinterpretation
“Okie from Muskogee: Recorded ‘Live’ in Muskogee, OK” is a superb and insightful book, one that rejected easy classification, like its subject Merle Haggard.
Royal Thunder Answered My Prayers
The emotions that I felt upon hearing Royal Thunder's "April Showers" are akin to those of finally receiving that thing you’ve been waiting for in the mail.
MANIAC: Dead Dance Club | The Joys of No-Frills Rock Music
So, when Dead Dance Club by MANIAC hit my ears, I was instantly transported back to the front seat of my 1997 Toyota Corolla.
Nine Inch Nails: Violent Witch Event | A Review of the EP Trilogy | 2016-2018
An overall look at Nine Inch Nails from 2016 to 2018 and a review of the EP Trilogy: Not the Actual Events, Add Violence, and Bad Witch (the album).
Country-Fried Dead | Grateful Dead – Dave’s Picks Volume 26
A combo from two shows in fall 1971, Dave's Picks Vol. 26 shows the Grateful Dead in their stripped-down, country rock period.
Wild Moccasins: Look Together | Breaking Up Sucks, but the Music is Great
when I heard that the new release from Wild Moccasins, Look Together was rooted in the breakup between its two principal members I was worried.